The Matriarchy of Amaranthian is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 771 million Amaranthianians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 60.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Amaranthianian economy, worth 22.4 trillion lire a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 29,002 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Amaranthianian weed picker are way up, and the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amaranthian's national animal is the whale shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Amaranthian is ranked 307,276^th in the world and 697^th in Horizon for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 11,484.8 Standard Monetary Units.